Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

A major international effort has produced detailed images and chemical data on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing its ...

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T Coronae Borealis, a star system 3,000 light-years away, is expected to erupt as a nova in June 2026, briefly becoming ...

(CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star system to Earth. The four planets are ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

In theory, it could happen – one of the very first solutions to the three-body problem was this scenario. But it is very unlikely to be stable over time. You need the stars to have near equal mass and ...